Wilton High School Team Wins Academic WorldQuest 2010
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Academic WorldQuest is a national high school quiz competition created by the World Affairs Councils of America (WACA), an affiliation of 90 councils around the country dedicated to educating people, especially students, about international affairs. The World Affairs Forum hosts its regional competition at UCONN/ Stamford annually. Our winning team this year - WILTON HIGH SCHOOL - will travel to Washington, DC - expenses paid - to compete with the other regional winners at the national Academic WorldQuest on April 24, 2010.
This year questions focused on the following topics: Pandemics, Genocide, International Migration, Food, World Music, World Cup, Caribbean Islands Oman and Current Events.
Fifteen teams from eleven high schools from Fairfield and Westchester Counties competed in this year's event. Trumbull High School took second place and Bronxville High School took third place. MasterCard Worldwide and World Wrestling Entertainment were the lead sponsors, while the Xerox Foundation and The Hageman Foundation also generously sponsored this student event.
Sporting Gold Medals are first place winners from Wilton High School, Kevin Schuler, Hilary Clifford, Jackson Wilbur, Eric Glass (alternate) and Austin Schaefer
Shawn Miles of MasterCard Worldwide Presents Gold Medals to Wilton Team
The Second Place Team from Trumbull High School
Heather Dahlin, Miles DeAngelis, Shruti Kuzhippat, Brendan Lewis
Forum Board Chairman, Gene Rostov, with the Third Place Team from Bronxville High School
John Timoney, Ryant Taras, Steven Klurfeld (Advisor), Peter Davis, Jay Keating
Hope Hageman of the Hageman Foundation; Forum Executive Director, Kay Maxwell; Congressman Jim Himes;
Forum Board Chairman, Gene Rostov; Forum Board member, Ram Ramcharandas; and
Board Member and Chairman of the Academic WorldQuest Committee, George Paik
Game Master Tony Savino, WGCH Radio, Greenwich